The Bible’s Book of Job could be the book of America in 2020 – rife with pandemic death, inexplicable suffering, tested faith, and social injustice. We think we know poor bedeviled Job — stripped of ...

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Harold S. Kushner is a rare bird: a popular religious writer set apart by his humility and lack of proselytizing. This rabbi’s long list of best-selling books, including his 1981 hit “When Bad Things ...

Unfortunately for the powerful, the plight of the biblical Job is a story with perennial resonance. A man seemingly rich in the gifts life has to offer, happy and blessed, finds himself — unjustly, ...

ABILENE, Texas -- Let's say a bunch of Bible characters show up at your door. You want to be helpful, obviously, but you can't afford to feed and house them all indefinitely. Instead, you do the next ...

The scientific world has been at odds with religion for centuries but the debate has grown increasingly heated in recent years – particularly over the origins of the universe. Creationists believe in ...

In 1863 the Confederate Army was “flushed with victory.” Throughout the summer of that year, the Union had been taking brutal losses. The cost in human lives was high. “Sometimes it looked,” Elizabeth ...

The actor has had plenty of projects percolating: the magic realist drama “The City That Sailed,” potentially teaming with Kathryn Bigelow and Tom Hanks on “Triple Frontier,” a revisionist take on ...

Last week, I mentioned one of my favorite passages from the Bible — Job 38-41. In these chapters, “The Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind.” (38:1 KJV) These four chapters are, to me, not only ...